Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
a drawing which shows a bunch of demons messing with an oscillator circuit. The title is "factors which cause frequency shifts in oscillators" and the causes are: a varying load, varying high voltages from the power supply,and mechanical vibration of the tubes
please, nerds, I am looking for where this image is from
An old "theory of everything" seems to be everywhere. Media scholars left it for dead decades ago. Reporters keep giving it new life. What is "the Great Divide" and how does it hold us back from understanding our digital dilemma?
www.mackhagood.com/oral-residue...
Do any indie radio/college radio people keep a master list of promo company emails/contacts? I'm trying to re-energize a flagging college radio station that's been floundering since covid and this would be a good start
postdoc for a sound studies scholar out there
full deets / alt text in link palestinestudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/call-for-pos...
just tried pandoc for epub -> pdf and while not gorgeous I would call the result usable for purposes of assigning. assuming here that's the main purpose and that epubs in question are downloadable and not watermarked to death, none of which may be true.
“Technology” has a long and problematized relationship with progress, efficiency, and efficacy. Sleek trains rushing through the countryside, the blinding reach of the electrical grid, or the instantaneous messages of networked communication are its shiny avatars. Contraptions, by contrast, are technical devices that barely work. They seem too complex, too circuitous, too labor intensive. They are frequently ad hoc—as unrepeatable and unreliable as Rube Goldberg’s fantastical machines. They push the received wisdom about technology’s defining features to the limit. Like the aesthetic “gimmick” theorized by Sianne Ngai, the contraption is a category charged with normative judgment. Contraptions may work, but they don’t work right. While the contraption is commonly associated with vernacular or retrograde alternatives to high technology, many “high tech” devices reveal a contraption-like character on close inspection: AI chatbots, internet protocols, and helicopters come to seem both over- and under-engineered the more attention is paid to them. This session invites STS scholars to think with the figure of the contraption: What alternatives to popular ideas about technology do these complicated and unruly objects offer? What is it about the present moment that pushes the contraption back into public thought? How does the normativity of contraption judgments manifest in everyday life? How do people come to perceive and evaluate technical complexity in social life? Work in this area may draw on theories of gimmicks, hacks, kludges, workarounds, tricks, bricolage, and other complex or informal technical activities.
STS folks, I'm organizing an open panel on CONTRAPTIONS for 4S this year, following up on a lovely panel at last year's AAA meetings. You should submit something if you got it! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!
Your grad rep here with some self promotion-- I've co-organized this conference at UC Berkeley 3/7-3/8- free and open to public-- possibly of interest to some in this community!
www.algorithmicmusicmethods.com
Cover of Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland by Patrick Brodie. At the bottom of the cover there is a photograph of three empty houses in disrepair with abandon building materials and gravel in the foreground. The sky is dark and stormy. Above this, the cover is a solid dark teal green. The title is written in a white sans-serif type in all caps. The subtitle is below in the same type. The author’s name is below in a white serif font.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ
Hell yeah, fantastic news!! Congrats, Jess!
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Announcement for Platform Hygiene
very cool and exciting news: my debut book, PLATFORM HYGIENE, is now under contract with @dukepress.bsky.social!
Listening to a fascinating conversation about R&B history with Amani Roberts, @brandontensley.bsky.social & Emily Lordi & just realized that Whitney Houston grew up in East Orange, NJ, also home to Queen Latifah & WFMU. Part of Popular Music Books in Process Series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEX...
the abstract for the essay Platform authoritarianism in the creator economy
new essay on platform authoritarianism, disability, and class in creator economies out now in comm & critical/cultural studies!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P8HRY...
Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.
some exciting news:
announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors.
submissions open Feb 12.
Thank you, Landon!
Thank you, Will!
Thanks, Josie!
Wow, thank you! This really means a great deal to me and I'm incredibly grateful for the committee's close attention to the work
Thanks, Rory! And very much likewise!
The annual Day of Noise—24 hours of live experimental music—at @kzsustanford.bsky.social is happening now! I'll be playing an ambient-drone set with a friend 9–9:30 p.m. PT. Tune in at kzsu.stanford.edu.
Image from Al Jazeera: a Minneapolis protester blows a whistle in the face of ICE's Gregory Bovino.
This week on Phantom Power: Yellow Swans' Gabriel Mindel on #sound, power, and Minneapolis. His research and criticism on noise, protest, and settler-colonialism couldn't be more relevant.
www.mackhagood.com/podcast/nois...
Thanks so much, Jess!
Thanks so much, Josh. That means a lot.
Big congrats to @akstuhl.bsky.social for winning the 2026 SCMS dissertation award. For “Unmaking a Medium: Automation and Art in American Radio, 1950–2010,” supervised by Jonathan Sterne (McGill).
